Hi all, some time ago I proposed a version of Ubuntu, on the Ubuntu dev ml, aimed at people studying and working at Universities: students, researchers, professors. I'm reporting my original message below.
In short, I was kindly pointed to Edubuntu, and indeed I read in its wiki that academic users are targeted for later releases. I'd be interested in working towards this goal, I'm especially interested in XML related stuff, but not only. I also like the idea of using meta-packages to build customized educational distributions out of the standard Ubuntu releases, is this the plan for Edubuntu as well? This way one could pick and choose the sets of software packages most suitable to his needs, instead of etching in stone the Edubuntu features. Thanks in advance, looking forward to hearing from people interested in this idea. Ciao -------------------------------8<------------------------------- Hi all Ubuntu devs, I am a long time Gnome user who also happens to work at a University in Italy. I've been working in the Humanities Computing field during the last few years, and together with other people we've founded a site called Digital Medievalist (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/). Lately I've been working (well, started working...) on a customized Ubuntu Live CD especially designed for scholars: XML editors, TEI (http://www.tei-c.org/) DTDs and documentation, image processing software, office applications and the like. This got me thinking: has anyone considered an Acabuntu (= Ubuntu for academics) version of Ubuntu Linux? It would be a boon for more advanced users (those already aware of Linux: I can claim at least one convert to Ubuntu :) and a good showcase for those using/tempted by Macs. Open source makes a lot of sense for academics, we often tend to work and organize research in a very similar way. It would be very nice to have a specialized distro for people like me. I know about an Edubuntu project, which is similar albeit with a different focus. If anyone is willing to start working on Acabuntu, please contact me, I'd like to work on such a project! -------------------------------8<------------------------------- -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Scienze rosselli at ling.unipi.it del Linguaggio Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3) -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
